Alan Johnson (@acjay.com)

I use this account as-needed, but I mostly post elsewhere.

[Alan Johnson (@acjay.com) @AlanJay1]

I'm back. Primarily to advocate for people getting tf out of here.

[Renee @PettyLupone]

I have never heard Obama speak like this.

[Alan Johnson (@acjay.com) @AlanJay1]

My stance: use a substitute for his products wherever possible. If I use one of his products, I intend to extract more value than I contribute.

[Alan Johnson (@acjay.com) @AlanJay1]

I wish I felt Elon was paying a much steeper penalty for his consistently atrocious behavior. The only power we have is to hit him in the wallet.

[Alan Johnson (@acjay.com) @AlanJay1]

@SocietyQueen999 Jokes aside, I'm sorry you got that unhinged ass message

[Alan Johnson (@acjay.com) @AlanJay1]

@SocietyQueen999

[Alan Johnson (@acjay.com) @AlanJay1]

@VivekRammaswamy @krassenstein Biden has been elected to office by the public 10 times that I count. It's up to the public to term limit him. Supreme Court Justices are not elected at all. That is why they should have term limits.

[Alan Johnson (@acjay.com) @AlanJay1]

@jemelehill He didn't though. Joe Biden--who I agree is one of the most accomplished presidents--disqualified his own candidacy at the debate and subsequent appearances. Trump had very little to do with that.

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

Kellyanne Conway just said on Fox News that Kamala Harris doesn’t speak well or work hard — rich considering who she worked for, and laughable because we’ve all heard the VP speak. The racist dog whistles have begun.

[Alan Johnson (@acjay.com) @AlanJay1]

I smell fear

[Speaker Mike Johnson @SpeakerJohnson]

As I said this morning, every state has their own election system and the Democrat party will face legal challenges in trying to remove Biden from the top of the ticket.

Turns out the so-called “party of democracy” thinks it can overrule the votes of over 14 million Americans.

[Alan Johnson (@acjay.com) @AlanJay1]

@mykola It is true that this wasn't a truly level playing field, just as the actual primaries weren't. But I don't think we're going to get that, and I don't even think it would be a good idea, practically speaking.

[Alan Johnson (@acjay.com) @AlanJay1]

@mykola My perspective: we had a de facto open convention. It was the past month we all lived through. Anyone could have made their play openly. Lots of people did, not so openly. Kamala Harris won that contest convincingly, because she is the incumbent VP.

[Alan Johnson (@acjay.com) @AlanJay1]

Broke my posting moratorium thinking maybe this place has some interesting insight or compelling action plan for what we're living through.

Not really.

Back to withholding my thoughts and attention from the site owned by Elon.

[Alan Johnson (@acjay.com) @AlanJay1]

@mekkaokerekebye - Are you uniquely suited for the job?
- Do you already have other offers?
- Are you safe if everything falls through?

All these things are risk mitigations. If none are true, maybe the bird in hand is the safest.

[Alan Johnson (@acjay.com) @AlanJay1]

@mekkaokerekebye Yep. People get caught up in binaries and norms, when it's a question of risk. If you take the time to explore, the company will, too. Make the decision with your risk tolerance in mind.

[Alan Johnson (@acjay.com) @AlanJay1]

@jemelehill @OrbeAnna @RonWechsler People and the polling have been clear on the thinking on his age for years.

[Alan Johnson (@acjay.com) @AlanJay1]

@jemelehill @RonWechsler I don't think that's true if his primary debate performances looked like Thursday. If there weren't primary debates or he didn't participate, I agree.

What he should have done is announced his intention to serve only 1 term a year ago.

[Alan Johnson (@acjay.com) @AlanJay1]

@franklinisbored @BarackObama The debates were lost in entirely different ways. Don't be disingenuous.

[Alan Johnson (@acjay.com) @AlanJay1]

@Granuailynn @jemelehill @Schueller_Kevin @mattwilson2124 1. The sibling comment I referenced and agreed with mentions Harris and Michelle Obama.

2. There's a question of how safe to play, given that I truly do believe our democracy is at risk.

I think Kamala beats Trump, but is not the lowest risk.

[Alan Johnson (@acjay.com) @AlanJay1]

@jemelehill @Schueller_Kevin @mattwilson2124 Biden's core weakness when it comes to this election is he doesn't seem in command, in any sense, and most of his other electoral weaknesses are rooted in that.

[Alan Johnson (@acjay.com) @AlanJay1]

@jemelehill @Schueller_Kevin I agree with @mattwilson2124 -- I honestly think most qualified Dems would easily do it. I'm not an expert, but I would say a governor like Polis, Pritzker, Murphy, etc.